Opinion

YREKA – A man accused of luring two girls into his home with gifts and ice cream and then sexually assaulting them a decade ago pulled a gun in the courthouse during his trial Friday and shot one of his victims and her husband. He then killed himself. -more-

In what sounds like something out of “Jurassic Park,” bacteria that lived before the dinosaurs and survived Earth’s biggest mass extinction have been reawakened after a 250-million-year sleep in a salt crystal, scientists say. -more-

SACRAMENTO — Opponents in the fight over the school voucher initiative on California’s Nov. 7 ballot accused each other Tuesday of using deceptive ads. -more-

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